Some of the week’s odder headlines (with commentary) …
Khat spread
as opposed to anchovy spread, one assumes!?
Sweaty armpits
this week’s new expletive
Barclays in Treasury debt talks
good that someone’s paying off our national debt
Pope rejects African condom use
you’d have a problem fitting one on the Horn of Africa anyway
Can eating Chinese staples ward off breast cancer
what’s wrong with the staples from my desk draw?
Construction faces migrant curbs
dangerous these migrating curb stones
France chastises Pope on condoms
new SM fetish – being whipped while lying on a pile of condoms?
Pink elephant is caught on camera
mustn’t be racist and have nothing but white elephants
Papal embrace
well that’s a new name for it!
NZ plane birth charges
but do planes reproduce sexually or asexually?
** These posts are named in honour of His Imperial Sliminess Peter, Lord Mandelson as originally blogged here.
I spotted the NZ plane one and had to read it so I suppose the headline worked for me. I’d got visions of a jumbo jet with lots of smaller ones and of course it was nothing of the sort.